+ Core maintainer for Linode's open-source Karpenter provider to automatically cost-effectively scale LKE clusters

+ Core maintainer for Linode's open-source cluster-api provider (CAPL) to easily provision production-ready Kubernetes clusters on Linode infrastructure

+ Coordinating with key stakeholders and architects to assist in development of enterprise-grade Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)

+ Contributing to Linode's open-source Kubernetes repos including the linode-cloud-controller-manager (CCM) and linode-blockstorage-csi-driver

+ Lead investigation, MVP, and development for Akamai’s next-generation Serverless product.

+ Designed, prototyped, and spearheaded development on the new development platform for Cloud Native & SaaS Engineering based on Crossplane. A new engineering team was created from this project.

+ Lead investigation, design, MVP, and development for Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)’s internal aggregated logging solution based on Fluentbit, Loki, and Grafana.

+ Increased the stability and reducing maintenance overhead of the LKE with additional monitoring, automation, and GitOps via ArgoCD

+ Assisted in designing, prototyping, and building the company’s next-generation PCI-compliant private cloud infrastructure based on Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 (RKE2).

+ Developed software to automatically create / upgrade RKE2 clusters and core infrastructure workloads such as Fleet, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Fluentbit, kube-vip, OPA Gatekeeper, and

CIS-operator.

+ Lead the design and selection of K8s persistent volume block storage solution.

+ Assisted in designing, prototyping, and building the first iteration of the company's next-generation private cloud infrastructure in a SAFe / Agile environment.

+ Lead the design, presentation to lead architects, and entire software development lifecycle of a customized continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes clusters using GitOps practices, based on Flux.

+ Took ownership of maintaining and improving cluster and tenant application monitoring using Prometheus, jsonnet, Alertmanager, Karma, and Grafana.

+ Created automated Jenkins pipelines, driving best practices for continuous integration and continuous testing.

+ Developed new Flask applications to simplify the RTC testing process of releases and ease the scheduling of maintenance for machines on various production networks.

+ Created alerts and procedures for critical production infrastructure, 2 of which prevented quorum loss in our key management infrastructure.

+ Created automation for test network maintenance

+ Partook in regular functionality and feature completion verification before release hand-off to SQA.

+ Set up standardized pipelines to deploy applications to any environment, build and test pull requests, and create Debian and RPM packages through OBS.

+ Partook in on-call rotations to respond to alerts for critical DevOps infrastructure. Administered the company's GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, GitPrime, New Relic, and OpenShift instances.

+ Created Python modules and RPM packages to ease deployments of web apps across the company, provision virtual machines on the fly for Puppet manifest verification, and for creating OpenStack images for QA to test web apps.

+ Completed a successful 3-month trial of embedded DevOps on a specific product team to help better meet the needs of their software engineers in their development, testing, and releasing process.